Amid the dramatic tension, Lanni left for Germany the following day. Using the directions that Flynn sent her, she made her way to Galaxis Academy as soon as she arrived. She finally realized why she was unable to find anything related to the school in the past; it was too isolated with no building within several kiloters of its radius.
There was no way to go to the school with Xiehan, so he had to stay as close to the premises as possible, which was a few kiloters away to avoid getting into trouble with those deplorable human beings. After nagging her to send him a signal if she encountered anything dangerous, he finally reluctantly let her go.
Lanni was dropped off by a van that Flynn had sent to pick her up. When she arrived, she looked around at the familiar yet unfamiliar environnt and had mixed feelings. She had once put in all her effort to be in this place...yet at the mont, all she felt was hatred and a tinge of fear. Would her dad really be okay?
She was thinking about it when soone bumped into her on his way.
"I’m so sorry, miss. Are you alright?" He quickly apologized then froze in the next second when he saw Lanni’s face. "Phoenix! It’s actually you! You ca back?"
Lanni squinted her eyes as she tried to rember the excited young man before her. She rembered him from a certain evening in Country C. She was on a date with Xiehan and was just about to confess her feelings to him when this young man bumped into her. His reaction had been the sa: he had been shocked to see her. Only that at the ti, he was surprised about her being alive.
The young man continued rattling on in excitent. "I knew it was you that night! I heard soone say you had lost your mory. Is it true? Is that why you did not recognize ?" Aside from that night, Lanni couldn’t rember him from anywhere else. "Who are you?"
"Eh? What? You don’t know ?" The young man looked disheartened. "You can forget everyone else but how can you forget your own little brother? Ouch~my heart hurts."
Lanni didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It seed like there was one of Lin Jian everywhere, right?
Seeing that she was going to ignore him, the young man quickly reintroduced himself. "I’m your little brother, Robin."
"B-brother?" Lanni exclaid as she glanced at him suspiciously. Since when did she have a little brither?
"Have you forgotten this too? I must have been so unimportant." He sobbed exaggeratively. "We were both trainees under Flynn, that monster."
"Monster." A sudden voice resounded from behind them and the duo reflexively turned to see Flynn glaring daggers at them.
"Uhm... sis, I just rembered that I have sothing else to do. See you around!" The young man fled in the blink of an eye.
"Stay away from him." Flynn warned.
"That’s not necessary." Lanni responded. She would not stay around for long enough to bump into him again.
Flynn cleared his throat and said, "I don’t know how much you rember but I’m not going to treat you like a new trainee. You will have to do everything on your own, princess."
"Can you stop calling that?" Lanni was irritated.
"Aren’t you one? Anyway. I’m used to it so you will have to put up with it."
Lanni swallowed back her anger. Whatever, she would not be staying for too long anyway. "Take to my dad."
"You finally asked. Let’s go, he’s been waiting for you." the man led the way and she followed.
He led her to one of the buildings which she vaguely recognized. They went on to the first floor and the more they walked, the more Lanni rembered the place. This was...
They entered one of the offices and after locking the door from the inside, Flynn pressed his palm onto one of the walls. In the next mont, a screen appeared on the wall and detected his hand, then the wall opened up to reveal an exit.
"A fake wall?" Lanni was unexpectedly calm when she saw what looked like magic happen before her.
"You seriously forgot everything, didn’t you? I don’t know what the old man was thinking when he decided to call you back.
The old man he was talking about was the boss; Lanni had never seen him but he only ever chose recruits based on their abilities. Logically, Lanni should not have been brought back in her current state.
"I suddenly thought of a reason. Perhaps the old man knows that you have recovered most of your mory and is afraid that you may pose a threat to the organization. Say, he wouldn’t have called you because he wants to finish you off, right?" Flynn blabbered as they made their way to the headquarters.
"Are you trying to scare ? I’m not a gullible little girl." Lanni scoffed.
Flyn chuckled. "You used to be one."
Luckily, they arrived fast and she no longer had to hear him assault her ears with matters of the past.
When they entered an awfully familiar building, an eerie sense of fear arose in Lanni’s heart. Her heart pounded as though they were entering the depths of hell. She didn’t know what scared her more. Was she afraid that her father might have been hurt already, or was it because she was eting the boss for the first ti?
Flynn received a phone call with instructions and led her to a room.
Lanni was just about to ask how many weird entrances and exits they were going to go through when she finally saw sothing that ignited a ray of hope in her heart.
"Dad!" She rushed up to the man chained onto a chair and embraced him tightly.
"Lanni, why are you here?" Xia Hanchen looked displeased and worried.
"What do you an why am I here? Of course I’m here to save you."
"You shouldn’t have co here. What if you get hurt?"
Ahem..." Flynn coughed at the side. "I hate to interrupt your heartwarming reunion but the boss is waiting."
Lanni straightened up and nodded. "Dad, I’ll be back shortly."
Xia Hanchen masked the worry in his tone and sent a warning look to Flynn before saying, "Take care, co back fast."
After that, she followed Flynn to another room. She expected to see the boss but instead, it was a large screen. Not surprising. This was how everyone communicated with him.
She started the call based on her mory and spoke as soon as she had the chance. "I have co as you asked. When are you going to let us go?"
A chuckle reverberated in the room before the boss huffed in disdain. "Little thing, you have not even started on your mission, yet you are already asking to leave?"
"Excuse ?"
What mission?
Lanni had a bad feeling about this.
"Did you think I rely called you here to take a look at you because I missed you? You wouldn’t be so naive, right?"
Lanni clenched her fists. I knew it!
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